Each of my products have 88 variations but I only have 11 photos for the 11 different color options. This totals about 3MB total, 10MB for extended photos. After creating the variations with the automated process the 3MB of images are now taking up 200MB of space, 600MB for extended. At this rate I'll need a TB of space for what used to only take up 1GB in my old store. This is an utter waste of space!!! How does Magento not know to reference the same images when using the automated configuration maker thing???
What can I do to fix this?